Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses — Company Remains Focused on Championing Consumer Access to High Definition Content — TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop …

Live from Toshiba's HD DVD press conference in Tokyo — Engadget Japan is live at Toshiba's HD DVD press conference in Tokyo right now. It's nearing 5PM, when the bell is expected to toll for HD DVD, and we can all move on with our new lives as Blu-ray (or download) buying consumers.

iPod shuffle Now Just $49 — New 2GB Model Priced at $69 — Apple® today announced that its iPod® shuffle, the world's most wearable music player, is now even more affordably priced at $49 and that it is introducing a new 2GB model of the iPod shuffle for $69.

iPod shuffle price cut, now $49 — Well, what do you know. What was $79 just a few minutes ago is now just $49. Making room for something new are we Apple? Still no change to iPod touch and iPhone pricing but we'll keep an eye out. — [Thanks, Mog]

‘DVD Jon’ frees your media with DoubleTwist — The man notorious for cracking the DVD code, and Apple's FairPlay DRM, is looking to make a legitimate business out of his expertise. — Beginning Tuesday, the first product from his company DoubleTwist Ventures, will enter open beta.

Scribd's iPaper Plan — Scribd, the San Francisco-based start-up that was dubbed “YouTube of Documents” has finally become worthy of that sobriquet. While I don't care much about community around documents, I love the concept of dead simple sharing of documents.

Mozilla Messaging — Today we've announced the launch of Mozilla Messaging, the new name for the entity I've been calling MailCo on this blog. As promised, it's a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused on email and internet communications. We've put up the essential information …

The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office — Online office suites like Google Docs are often criticized because they have a very basic feature set, but the advanced features from software packages like Microsoft Office are rarely used. Jensen Harris, Group Program Manager …

Cleversafe rolling smoothly toward second quarter launch — Cleversafe's “storage Internet,” a dispersed storage system where data is sliced to bits and placed on many servers around the globe, is rolling along toward a second quarter launch. — Chairman and CTO Chris Gladwin told ZDNet last week …